Box for garments



A r. 3, 1923- 1,450,171 R. F. CUTH BERT I BOX FOR GARMENTS Filed Apr. 5, 1921 INVENTOR Zoeri M6PZ BY ivSATTOZEIEZ p Patented Apr. 3, 1923.

P FFEEQ a arena ROBERT F. CUTHBERT, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO THEO. TIEDEMANN 8t SONS,

INCL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A

CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

l BOX FOR GARMENTS.

Application filed April 5,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT F. CUTHBERT,

a citizen of the United States, and resident of the city of New York, county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Boxes for Garments, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a box or receptacle for Containing articles of wearing apparel and more specially womens dresses, coats, waists, burial shrouds or like articles.

An object of this invention is to provide a box of this character for holding such articles, permitting a box of small capacity to be used for containing a garment in such a manner to prevent undue creasing or folding of the garment and to allow the garment to be readily removed from the box for the purpose of display and readily returned to its former position in the box.

A further object of this invention is to provide a box for containing a dress or the like in which the dress will be securelyheld and cannot move about in the box and will not be readily wrinkled or folded by handling of the boxes and yet will permit a ready removal of the garment from the box when desired.

These and other improvements are secured by my invention, a more particular description of which will appear hereinafter.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawing, forming a part hereof in which- Figure 1 is a plan view of a box and its contents, the box being made in accordance with my invention and provided with my improved means for holding a garment in place,

Figure 2 is a sectional view on the line 22 of Figure 1, looking in the direction of the arrows,

Figure 3 is a view of a portion of the garment hanger showing the form of hook employed thereon.

Throughout the various views of the drawings, similar reference characters designate similar parts.

In the preferred embodiment of my invention as disclosed in the accompanying drawing, I have shown a box having a bottom 1, sides 2 and ends 3 and 4. The edge of the box is provided with a strengthening frame of wood as at 45 The box may be of vided.

This hook 8 is 1921. Serial No. 458,682.

any, desired shapeor form to accommodate the desired contents and the box herein shown is of a substantially shallow rectangular form. A cover of any kind may be pro- At 5 is shown a garmentwhich may be a dress, coat, waist orthe like. The garment in this instance is longer than the box. and is doubled or transversely folded at at 6, the fold being atone end of thebox.

At 7 is a garment hanger of the usual form provided with a suspension hook 8. provided with a projecting portion 9 forming a narrow loop 10 for a purpose to be hereinafter mentioned. Secured in the frame t of the box at one end thereof is a spring hook 11 which is adapted to receive the hook 8 on the garment hanger 7. The hook 11 on the box fits into the narrow loop 10 on the hook 8 andconsequently holds the garment hanger in one position preventing lateral movement of the hanger in the box. The hook 11 is a spring hook and holds the hook 8 on the hanger securely until the hook 8 is manually removed from engagement with the hook 11 on the box.

At one end of the box are secured a pair of cooperating fastening tapes l2 and 13. T he ends of these tapes 12 and 13 are adapted to interengage by means of a snap'fastener 1% or like fastening member. The tapes 12 and 13 are thus detachably united together to form a single fastening strip which lies within the fold 6 of the garment at the end of the box.

At 15 and 16 is a pair of fastening tapes which are secured at a central position in the box. These central tapes 15 and 16 are adapted to be detachably secured together by means of a snap fastener 17 which thus unites the two tapes 15 and 16 together and causes the same to form a single continuous strip or band which overlies the garment at a substantially central position.

To remove the garment from the box, the hook 8 is snapped out of engagement with the hook 11, on the frame a and the tapes 15 and 16 are separated, and likewise the tapes 12 and 13 are separated and the garment can thus be readily removed from the box for the purpose of display and it can be suspended upon a hook by means of its hanger 7 It will be seen that the garment may be readily replaced in its position in the box as easily as it can be removed and while held within the box it is securely held in position.

From the foregoing it is obvious that my invention is not to be restricted to the exact embodiment shown but is broad enough to cover all structures coming within the scope of the annexed claims.

What I claim is:

1. A device of the class described comprising a garment box having a strip extending about its upper edge, a hook secured in said strip at one end of the box and extending inwardly towards the bottom of the box, a garmentholding member adapted to engage 'a garment at one of its ends, a hook on said member adapted to resiliently interengage with the hook on the box, a tape extending across the garment intermediate of its ends and a tape engaging the garment at its end opposite to the garment supporting member.

2. A device of the class described comprising a garment box, a hook secured in one end of the box and extending inwardly towards the bottom of the box, a garmentholding member adapted to engage a garment at one of its ends, a hook on said member, said hook having a central, narrowed loop portion adapted to resiliently interengage with the hook on the box, a tape extending across the garment intermediate of its ends and means at its end opposite to the garment supporting member.

Signed at the city, county and State of New York, this 2nd day of April, 1921.

R. F. CUTHBEBT.

for engaging the garment 

